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Drill Program Planned at Eastfields Crowsnest and Howell Gold Projects in Southeastern BC
Drill Program Planned at Eastfields Crowsnest and Howell Gold Projects in Southeastern BC
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nDrill Program Planned at Eastfields Crowsnest and Howell Gold Projects in Southeastern BC\n\n\n Jul. 27, 2009 (TheNewswire.ca) -- Vancouver, BC, July 27 2009 - Eastfield Resources Ltd. \"Eastfield\" (TSX-V: ETF) is pleased to announce that partner MAX Resource Corp. (OTCBB:MXROF) (TSXV:MXR) \"MAX\" (TSX.V: MXR) plans to conduct further drilling and exploration at the Howell Gold property in southeastern BC and has amended the Howell Option Agreement to include the nearby Crowsnest gold property.The Howell Gold Project is comprised of 4,376 hectares in southeast B.C. located one hour by gravel road south of Sparwood, straddling the drainages of Twenty-Nine Mile Creek and Howell Creek. The Crowsnest gold project consists of fifteen claims totaling 3,142 hectares located approximately 10 km southeast of the Howell property.Crowsnest Gold ProjectGold mineralization at the Crowsnest gold project occurs in limestone, siltstone and syenite. The property is underlain by a thick sequence of Pennsylvanian and Mississippian carbonate and clastic rocks, of which the Mississippian Rundle Group shows the greatest exposure. Mid-Cretaceous syenite and trachyte intrusions as sills, dykes, plugs and possible diatremes intrude these units. Several grids have already been established, including the \"A\", \"B\" and \"K\" grids, which led to the discovery of significant high grade gold.Many float and rubble samples on the \"B\" Grid have returned extraordinarily high gold analyses. This includes a float sample collected in 1989 by Placer Dome Inc., described as an intrusive breccia that returned a gold assay of 524.41 g/t gold. Other high grade float samples have returned assays to 620.0 g/t gold. One bedrock source of mineralization was discovered in 1996 and trenched by Eastfield in 1999, resulting in a trench intercept of 8.57 g/t gold over 16.5 metres. The 1999 area of focus, referred to as the Discovery Trench Area, has been the centre of most of the exploration activity completed at Crowsnest during exploration conducted in 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2006. The most recent exploration at Crowsnest in 2006 entailed road reconstruction and mechanical trenching, again largely in the Discovery Trench Area. Other areas that have also yielded high grade float samples have had only rudimentary work completed. A review of the database calculates an average...